are you sure we can afford this house, it’s 75 whole dollars!

For real though, my friend lived in the two bedroom upstairs apartment of a former single family house for about $2000 CAD a month and when browsing old newspapers online, I saw that the house was selling for the modern equivalent of $250k CAD in 1980. This is a SFH in the downtown area of what is now a 1.5m metro area… the house would sell for >$1m now

Fair point. I wouldn’t want to subject anyone to that

New York should just become Southern Ontario

Right? They have a terrible rep but they’re pretty fair in my experience. The only time I’ve angered one was when I stepped too close to take a picture of her babies and she did this grass filled mouth hiss at me like a cat. Which to be fair, is fair

Yeah I kind of believe that NA would work better as a bunch of smaller countries in an agreement similar to the EU. I say that as a Canadian who’s politics aren’t as much a dumpster fire too

He’s just trying to get our CDN back to an equal level with USD :)

I feel like that’s probably our nuclear option and we’re holding out for now since it’s likely Trump chickens out again

How dare the Canadian government get American companies to pay their fair share for operating here [in Canada]

That’s sad to hear honestly. I thought city politics would be the one place Americans could escape the two party BS

Huh, that kind of sucks to be honest. In Ontario (and I assume the rest of Canada), Mayoral elections don’t have parties involved at all. It’s just individuals and your city ward’s individual candidates. Truthfully, the candidates often have some former experience with a provincial or federal party (or at least an endorsement, but they don’t run under any party banners)

I think it makes more sense that way since local politics work a lot differently than state/provincial and higher politics.

I’ve been kind of confused about this whole thing. In the US, are even mayoral elections Democrat VS Republican? What happens if more than two people want to run for mayor?

Fuck the rich, fuck the racists/sexists/homophobes/etc., and fuck any MAGAts who somehow aren’t covered by the previous

100% agreed

These are the stats I found:

• According to the most recent Gallup poll, Trump’s job approval rating was 43% in May.
• The Economist shows that 41% of people are favorable of Trump and 53% are unfavorable of him, according to the latest update from June 20.
• Rasmussen Reports poll from June 20 showed 52% approval and 47% disapproval of Trump.
• The Morning Consult tracker poll taken mid-June has dropped to 46% approval rating and 52% who disapprove.
• A Reuters/Ipsos poll reported that, as of June 16, 42% of those surveyed gave him a favorable approval rating of his performance in office.
• An InsiderAdvantage poll taken between June 15-16 showed Trump with 54.4% approval over a 44.1% disapproval of his job performance.

From here

He has an almost 50% approval rating from Americans so while you’re technically correct, that’s still a ridiculous amount of Americans who like him

The US had no official language up until very recently

“You’re telling me none of these people shop on Amazon?” said New Orleans native Jake Springer, who, along with his wife, was spending a weekend in Venice on a wine tour through Italy. “At least they are protesting peacefully. Americans could learn a thing or two from this.”

It looks like a little guy saluting 🫡

Ukraine is killing it recently o7

No, get fucked

That’s up there with Ontario, CA